ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,664, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic electronic data record resolution in electronic data environments" was invented by Abhishek Seth (Deoband, India), Neeraj Ramkrishna Singh (Bangalore, India), Geetha sravanthi Pulipaty (Manteca, Calif.) and Soma Shekar Naganna (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for searching and/or linking corresponding electronic data records includes: choosing, for a target electronic data record, a group of candidate electronic data record(s) for comparison; selecting a first set of one or more attributes for comparison bet...